Working Papers

by Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao . We present the first systematic study on child labour in China. Child labour is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average,

by E. Meschi, E. Taymaz & M. Vivarelli This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalisation and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits a unique longit

by J. Ritzen & K. Zimmermann . A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in Western industrial countries such as the US would lead to increasing tensions between different socio-economic groups which might in